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The Green
Thumb
by G. MacLEOD ROSS • I
CHURCH ILLIANA
During the past Week we ;acred -rite, the smoking of cig-
ars and also the drinking of al-
.?..ohol 'before, ,after and if need
be, during all meals.and in the
intervals haw n t'M." The_
King -graciously accepted the
position!. ,
When Chtirchilt re-entered
Normandy six days after the.
have seen'and heard a number
ofn tributes to the' greatest liv-
ing Englishman, tributes which
- ,were.-voieed.--bystrierld -and....foe
alike for, no matter in what
company .he stood, he would
always tower above his con-
temporaries and over most Of
-------his---predeeessars. tort -that -mat- landings in,,,Inne, 1944, Ile, mut,
have been imbued with the suf.
fering which bombing and ra-
d wewaght ii -En„,
land and which contrasted SQ
markedly with the status quo
which had been so perfidiously
bought by the French Quislings.
He reports: "We are surounded
ter.' At the risk of being trite,
this is 'an attempt to show
some
ter of the man than was con-
veyed to one viewer at least
by what appeared to be more
a. catalogue, of 'his adventurous
actions- than a- r6veaation of
hdis characteristics and qual-
ities. No one denies that he in-
spired a nation, In point of fact,
.several nations, but we do not
gather how by being shown a
picture of Sir. Winston ma ing
the on.s Sacia-14-st-s-eepanents4 there is
-factory:
by fat cattle, lying In luscious
pastures with their paws cross-
ed."
-
Back in Parliament in. 1959
he was again ridicaling the
Socialist doctrine: "Among our
ozt, • 42E6,40PAPHORATY
of the qualities with which. he
was' endowed..
There was, for example, his
aptitude for instant repartee
• which made him such a danger-,
ous. opponent in debate. On
one occasion between the wars,
Bernard Shaw sent C.hurchill
two tickets for the fipst night
of elle of his plays. „It -was. at
a time When Churchill was in
the political wilderness. Shaw,
who limited his corresperidence
to postcards and the backs Of
old envelopes, put in a slip say-
ing: "Here are two, tickets for
the first night of Tny new play:
You Iffight care to ..bring 'a
friend if you still have , any,"
-.--4..EY-riattra...kl-,-„P-911.-L-c.Arne 'all
• • equally' brief reply- to Shaw:
"Thanks for the tickets which
Here then are a few mIggets,
culied overj.
e s ach of
seeks to Show one or
• I
a prior -engagement' 'prevents
me from using: I shall hope to
see it another night if there
is another 'night."
When it came to phrase mak-
Ing, his' impish humor showed
through • like a verbal cartoon.
Attlee was characterized as "a
sheeirin sheep's clothing," while
of « Neville Chamberlain he
.clothed his scorn in ridicule
when he said of him: "He could
-4decideonly to be undecided.
To 'resolve only to 'be irresolute.
He was adamant for drift, solid
for fluidity and all-powerful in
impotence' A commentary
-which is tInfortunatel*&47
peculiarly 'appropriate to 'Ot-
tawa today.
His definition of an apnea-5hr
as "one who feeds a crocodile,
hoping it will eat him last" is
hard to be.at and when, in 1954,
tio
he was asked by a feminist as
to the future role of women he
replied! "It Will, I trust, be the
same as it has been since the
days of Adam and Eve." •
Having . regard to' his , vast
political and military exper-
iences, the lessons learnt from
mistakes, his awn and others'.
his ,physical and moral courage,
his patriotism. and his realism,
all integrated by hat superb
intellect, it was not surprising
that he, could define a leader so
succinctly: "In any sphere of
action there can be no com-
parison between the. positions
Of Number One and Nurnb•Crs
two, three and four. The loy-
alties which centre upon Num-
ber One are enormous. If he
makes mistakes they must he
covered. If he sleeps he must
not be wantonly disturbed. If
he is no 'good he must be pale -
Axed,"
David Howarth in his Life of
Ibn Saud gives , an account of
Churchill in his naughtiest
mood when, meeting With the
Xing. "Roosevelt hdd been
c rtesy itself; he 'was a chain.
smi, er but he had not smoked
at all in the,pe of the'
Wahabi King a d had had to
-hide in the elevator of his war-
ship to light -a cigarette before
dinner.' Church ill however,
.said to the interpreter, that
if it was the religion of his
Majesty, to depsive -himself of
smoking and alcohol I Must
-point out that my rule of -life
prescribes, as an absolutely
great confusion. Sonic el them
regard private enterprise as a
predatory tiger- to be shot.
Others look on it as a cow ,to
be, milked;4'only' a 'handful see
it for What it is -.a strong arid
willing horse that pulls the
Finally, perhaps the -key to
his humanism when he said:
"There should always be an un-
failing faith tint there is a
II -ea -sure. in_ the...4011.. at, every,
man if only you can find it."
Armed with the precepts,
onre--of-vvItitth-are here thi
trated, how could a young man
fail? COCirage, dignity, humor,
steadfastness, realism, confid,
ence,
Lam 'and' and° above= his own own soul: But how few
could hope to possess such an
endaKment? We, who have
borne game of the burden of his
days, had better take a good
long„,4221Lat_him..1.9r we, shall
never see, his like.
SOME MYTHS ,ABOUT
CANADA
Two things combined to ar-
ouse me this week to one of my
sporadicdefences of Canada.
One -was, the fact that I have
beep teaching an essay by Bruce
Hutchinson called The Canadian
Personality. It's a 999d essa
one which makes the kids study-
ing it think about themselves
and their country. '
*
- The" 0.,Pie,E„is ..thAtUm_ki.cLlarg:.
ther arrived home ',the other
day' after four years in Europe,
I1e2S- 'a -geed k4dr-but-7.his-mis7.
conceptions., about this country
are deplorable.
Hutch ism,- ijanzhisay,tuat:
.sa art cirm e of the7C1firacteris-
tics common to Canadian. They
are poetic, but purel3oppycock.
* 'K*
• He speaks first of the "most
obvious," our "national humil-
ity." This ,is sios,Lobvi
fi,gment;artSe author's 'imagin-
, ation. While most Canadians
will grudgingly admit that
there's an occasional Lim or
aTirWho is net -devoid -5T earn-
. .,,,sfsenseiky.kuiktrhaveta-formikta
able jab on your hands to find
ha-lf a dozen Canadians who felt
humble in the presence of
either.
* * *
Next, he says we are, "A con-
servative and steady' people."
DIFFERENT7T
Christmas of today is a far
cry from the festivitiet -of the
Winter Solstice in pre -Christian
eras when people of Scandin-
avian Countries kindled fires to
defy the Frost King; drank
great horns of mead and told
weird tales of werewolves and
the valkyrie maidens who
searched for. souls and convey-
ed--theirrto---Valiraila: •
Those were the days' when the
ancient Druids observed the sea-
son with strange ceremonies in
the roofless temples of Stone-
henge and Aisebury in England,
sacrificed.whfte bulls, and wor-
lpinitl--rittrttAttYr-MtWITillti
around oak,
There are no superstitions to-
day so fantastic, as that in Nor -
!way where it„was once believed
that. those who dared to ,go out
into the winter darkness on
Christ -ma -9 night could see
'through vvind•ows,„ the peeple de-
stined to die during the coming
year -sitting headless in their
chairs. The danger of mid-
night -cavorting in these days
was the dread Oskeneien, a cav-
alcade of unblessed spirits, who
tore through the atr trying fey -
4.1M.
YEARS AG
efrishly to carry away foolhardy
adventurers.
First Rural
Lady Curlers
OinE rl'om tie rural
areas tooklo the curling ice '
lanes at Maitland Country
Club for the first time Thurs-
day afternoon. ,Theylearn-
ed quickly, tutored by we- r
-ffirg•711-4'Ing-Tfol-ri -G4-6661-7C717"
The rural' women hope to g
eventually establish a curling b
league of their own.
The ladies were mostly
from. the Holmesville and
Benmiller areas. They were:
Mrs. Aileen Bowman, Mrs.
Lois Rowe, Mrs. Nada Mc-
:Clinchey, Mrs. Joyce Pocock,
krs. Margaret Torrance and
Mrs. Pam Saddler. They were
joined by two Goderich wo-
men who were curling for the
'first time: Mrs. Elda White'
Rind Mrs. Doris Fisher.
Oh, yes. Yes, indeedy. We' are
the conservative and steady
people who have an election
every couple of 'years, who
swing wildly from one political
party to another, who riot over
a hockey game, who have fam-
ilies coming to blows over a
flag design, who blow up mai
boxes.
And, he says, our politicians,
eflect us in . . "
75F-C-Olit-and -hair." I
uess he's•right. John Diefen-
aker, a politician tie whom we
ave the greatest majority in
our history, whom we elected
twice as Prime Minister, has no h
more calor than- a purpte wag-
on breathing crimson flames.
*
"And we are a lonely peo-
ple," says Hutchison. ,Well,
speak for yourself, old boy.
Personally, I'd prefer to be
about three times at lonely as
I am. You should 1ty, some-
time, getting into the bathroom
gur_plage„,
He says we are, "awed ... by
the-- fierce northern -climate,
which colors and toughens .
4,wai be_ hanged. .
I went out Sunday Tf
had snowed. My picnic, table
lealted-like--a-prognant„.. •
potamus, lying on her back. I
stuck a yardstick down. Twenty-
two inches, overnight. 'Hilt
ett;__I.swore-fil
minutes, a.nd-started shovelling.
*
The kid brother was just as
wrong-headed about Canada as
.Hutchison. I „ expected some
lucid comments on the Can-
omeone who
had be.en-exposed to European
culture for four years, the last
two in" Paris.
* gs
Do you know w a e corn-
iftiii&W6VPIttrettlfitil
pea ns, who don't have any snow,
to speak of, have- no cuffs on
their trousers, white Canadians,
who wade through the stuff, for
five month's, have cuffs.
* *
He cloesn't realize that we
like it that way, that we liketto
walle% into somebody's house,
stamp our ,bots off in their
hallway, and turn about four
pounds, of snow -out of our
cullento their freshiwaxed
hardwood floors. Keeps them
rom getting .houseproud.
Do you know what he talked
abont? Not the impressive view
from the EiffeLTewer, but the-
nan,,alaninber , of snicidps who
had leaped from it. Not the
glories of the Louvre, but the
hatrors of Paris traffic.
He spoke with rapture about
is meals in Pails, with scorn
about Canadian cooking. And
left never a morsel of the tat-
ter, even though there wasn't a
single 'snail or a single song!,
bird among it, on- his plate.
* *
lletscoffe,d at Canadians' en-
grossment 'with money and stat-'
us symbols. Ariel raved inter-
minably about 'his new Rover,
his ned hi -fl, his camera, his
tape recorder, and how much
he saVed on them.
As far as I'm concerned, I
think I'll just let Mr. Hutchison
and the kid brother go on liv-
ing in their dream world, while
I go onining a dour, independ-
ent, ornery Canadian, Without
personali , olor or culture.
Who needs it?
Admits Breaking
And Entering
William. John Rutledge, 39,
Goderich, was remanded in cus-
tody to December 10 for sent-
ence, when he appeared before
1Vlagistrate, Glenn flays in coitrt
here on Thursday and pleaded
guiltAto break and enterat the
'residence of Frank Clark, I8
Nelson street east, .Goderich, on
.November 26, with 'intent to
commit an indictable offence
therein. Entry was made 'by
breaking the glass in a kitchen
door and unlocking the, door.
Some United States money from
rtaletrei n was -s-t-fferblirrifer
recovered at Clinton. Rutledge
also pleaded guilty to consum-
ing liquor in Goderich On Nov-
ember 26, being an interdicted
-perseny--,R-utledge•-was-vezeently-
released from Burwash after
having served a term of 18
'months, and has a long list of
bituar.
,MS. FILEN "SI1VIKINS
ii-rs.‘ Ellen -Simkins, 89, died
on Thursday of last week in
Alexandra- • Hospital. She'-' wa-s
akormer Bus -man
was born in England. Her hus-
band, Joseph Sidney Simkins,
predeceasekl her.
Surviving is a daughter, Mrs.
Dorothy Challenger of (lode-
rich -
The funeral service altAtheld
Thomas' - ng :C3fl Church, Owen
Sound with the Tanner -Hill Jun-
eral home. in 'charge. Inter-
nt
h:71::7dw";s7475547v1:;:h'4;-
1id79640 95prce
had .electric refrigerators, 91
per cent had television sets, 87
per cent' had powered washing
machines and 74 per cent had
automobiles. ,
There were 7,681 diVorces in
,Canada in 1963, a rate of 40,6
.4ar each 100,000 of 'population;
New foundland had the lowest
divorce rate, 1.7, and Alberta
had, the highest, 902.
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